Outgoing New York City Mayor Eric Adams loves crypto. she DOING a mayoral “Office of Digital Assets and Blockchain,” and ssupposedly his first three salaries were converted to bitcoin so that the city can pay him in crypto.

And in the speeches made Monday at what will be his last press conference as mayorhe explained that his love for crypto is only getting worse. In fact, Adams will somehow cure violence, education, and antisemitism with crypto, he said.

When speaking about the next steps towards the end of the presser, he began a rocky start: “I’m excited about the next step. I can’t tell you … I said repeatedly, anyone who wants to finish a job you started.” And then he uttered three or four partial sentences that I couldn’t quite parse. He then returned his answer with the following:

“I want to do my book. I’m going back to school. But I also want to use cryptocurrency to stop violence, educate our children, and really deal with the antisemitism that we see around the world. That’s why I always want to lift up families and children, and I think this is a good opportunity to use technology to do it.

What does he mean? Did he turn his time machine back to 2021 and start a DAO to deal with violence, education, and antisemitism? Did he just donate a bunch of crypto to charity related causes? Did he create his own memecoin? For now, I think it’s best to assume that he’s just expressing himself artistically in this press conference, and that the statement is a kind of Etsy-style mood board in spoken word form.

In fact, 2025 is an absolutely huge year for lobbying in the crypto industry. According to the Hill, in July this year no less than 27 crypto companies filed their initial lobbying disclosure.

Also in July, Politico reported that Coinbase set up branded vending machines on the National Mall and distributed 5,000 Coinbase chocolate bars, with a representative explaining that they were trying to “create a sugar rush for crypto across the Capitol.”

If they’re looking for more ideas like that—and I mean it—they’d be fools to hire anyone but inventor of the phrase “All my haters became my servants when I sat at the table of success.” And they don’t have to pay him in real money.